General catchup

[shadesong]

* We have been without a furnace for over three weeks now. >.> The part that failed was installed in 1961, and apparently there were structural and safety concerns. Landlord and contractors went back and forth on repair vs. replacement for a while until the contractors flatly refused to repair ("we don't wanna get sued"), so the old furnace was

Comments

[swashbucklr]

Murder Cat sounds like Lying Cat's antagonist.

I can see entire whodunnits about this premise.

[diatryma]

Our furnace is broken too! It's amazing how much of a difference being warm can make. I spent time yesterday unable to think of anything but how miserable I was, bundled up in a fifty-degree living room... and now that we have it up to sixty and dare I say sixty-five, life is better. There's hope for the future. I can type.

[brithistorian]

Good luck with the full-body imaging, and with the furnace install. We had to do the electric blankets thing for heat (didn't even have space heaters for a couple of weeks!) once, but that was in New Orleans, so now nearly as severe as New England winter.

[siliconshaman]

Man, hope they get the boiler situation resolved before the words "polar vortex" start popping up on the weather charts... and sympathies with treating Bash The Murder cat. [I've got 8 cats, so been there] I assume you've tried the purreto or mummified cat approach? Sometimes giving them a treat immediately afterwards mitigates the effort involved as they associate treatment with treat.. [not always though.] Good luck with the body imaging as well...

[lawbabeak]

If your furnace was from 1961, ALL your future gas bills will be lower. Even if your landlord got a cheap one, any new furnace is going to be hella more efficient that that dinosaur.

[shadesong]

Yeah. The furnace guys estimate it'll cut our bill in half - and considering that they estimated last year's bills perfectly, I believe them!